Spoilers Godzilla Minus One [spoilers]

[billd91]

I just watched Godzilla Minus One on Netflix and it is one of the best Godzilla movies I’ve seen. They even took some nice shots at Imperial Japan’s conduct of the war and their arrogantly bad military procurement. I found that a nice touch (and about time).

 

[Ryujin]

As a fan of the original Toho movies, I enjoyed it very much. It was interesting how the commentary shied away from the nuclear attacks and their ramifications, though the undertone was of course present. They created quite a sympathetic protagonist with the way that they went.

 

[ichabod]

I saw it when it was in the theaters. One of my old friends is a huge fan of old monster movies and got me to go. It felt like a odd direction to take a giant monster movie, but they did a really good job of it. I also liked the criticism of Imperial Japan's conduct of the war.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I just watched Godzilla Minus One on Netflix and it is one of the best Godzilla movies I’ve seen. They even took some nice shots at Imperial Japan’s conduct of the war and their arrogantly bad military procurement. I found that a nice touch (and about time).

Yeah I was genuinely impressed that they were critical in intelligent ways of the Japanese war machine in WW2, which is something that generally seemed taboo in mainstream Japanese culture or even in manga and anime, which are quite fringe in some ways (very occasionally it's sort of alluded to, but not directly referred to, even when it would make sense).
Of course they glamourized the Shinden but I guess why not, it is pretty cool as WW2 aeroplanes go.

And it was a superb Godzilla/monster movie generally. I also appreciated the "brave martial suicide isn't that cool, actually, it's cooler when people live!" attitude.

I found the fact that the heat breath
set off what were clearly nuclear explosions to be a somewhat fascinating development of Godzilla as well, sort of tying him back to the bomb even more directly, as well as making him significantly more terrifying. It also was very interesting to me that they mentioned Bikini Atoll in that context, because of this bit from the Wikipedia article:

"In an additional unexpected event, albeit one of far less consequence, X-rays traveling through line-of-sight (LOS) pipes caused a small second fireball at Station 1200 with a yield of 1 kiloton of TNT (4.2 TJ)."

Which seems like a similar phenonmenon.

 

[Dire Bare]

Just watched on Netflix and really enjoyed it!

I loved having the story set just post WW2 and felt like I learned a bit about the Japanese experience at the time (minus giant monsters, of course).

Godzilla's first appearance in the movie was terrifying and looked way better than he did later in the film. After Bikini Atoll . . . Godzilla got bigger (in more ways than one) and a lot slower and less fluid.

 

[Zaukrie]

Just watched it also....and loved it. My wife only liked it, because of the stilted English (her words).

There were so many reasons to like this movie, only some of which were about the monster (and great effects).

 

[Maxperson]

I saw the movie in the theater and really, really loved it. I was really amused when we first got to look into the Japanese super fighter prototype's cockpit and it had a Made in Germany tag on it. Whoops!

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I saw the movie in the theater and really, really loved it. I was really amused when we first got to look into the Japanese super fighter prototype's cockpit and it had a Made in Germany tag on it. Whoops!

That wasn't an error, that's historical accuracy, just to be clear to anyone reading this. Specifically, the seat is labelled, and it's because German ejection seat, probably the same model from the Heinkel HE 162, which was the only plausible for them to have in 1946/7, especially in a WW2 aircraft. The German actually spoilered me on the ending of the movie in a sense, because I knew it had to be an ejection seat.

 

[Riley]

That wasn't an error, that's historical accuracy, just to be clear to anyone reading this. Specifically, the seat is labelled, and it's because German ejection seat, probably the same model from the Heinkel HE 162, which was the only plausible for them to have in 1946/7, especially in a WW2 aircraft. The German actually spoilered me on the ending of the movie in a sense, because I knew it had to be an ejection seat.

That is so cool.

I loved this movie more than any action movie I’ve seen in, um, a long time. A very long time. (Yes, more than Fury Road.)

The recreation of post-war devastation was seamless. The acting [I saw it in Japanese with English subs in the theater] was heartbreaking. I get choked up just thinking about the layers of grief and loss convincingly portrayed in that film.

 

[Ryujin]

That wasn't an error, that's historical accuracy, just to be clear to anyone reading this. Specifically, the seat is labelled, and it's because German ejection seat, probably the same model from the Heinkel HE 162, which was the only plausible for them to have in 1946/7, especially in a WW2 aircraft. The German actually spoilered me on the ending of the movie in a sense, because I knew it had to be an ejection seat.

I already got that from the scene before he took off. It was telegraphed pretty heavily.